A public art installation that allows children, and adults for that matter, to use the sun and turn lots of wheels to create rainbows, won a team of three young architects a coveted Purple Pin from Design Institute New Zealand (DINZ).
The Rainbow Machine, currently at Silo Park, is destined to entertain more Aucklanders as it moves around the city over the next few years, creating joy.
That's exactly what Dr Sarosh Mulla, and Patrick Loo Shahriar Asdollah-Zadeh hoped for when they came up with the idea, and the engineering to make it work after being commissioned by the Auckland Council.
Sarosh Mulla is lecturer at the School of Architecture and director of architecture firm Pac Studio; Shahriar is a sculptor, painter and designer who works at Pitch Studio; and Patrick Loo founded the architecture studio OPL.
